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Looking for a Graphic Designer with a strong portfolio of work in both print and digital mediums to work with your in-house marketing team in Chicago, IL. Utilizing skills in creating meaningful marketing materials that represent your internal and external Buildout brand. I am passionate, team-oriented, self-motivated and able to balance multiple projects in a fast paced environment.
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About John Schuster:
A specialist in creative, marketing and digital design, John Schuster offers services to associations design agencies and non-profit organizations across the U.S. With 20 years of experience in graphic design and web development he seeks to create the best digital campaign for you.
Online advertising is quickly becoming the most popular way of marketing. Most people have shifted their focus from the common physical stores to internet markets. A major reason is due to the nature of peoples work these days whereby there is limited time to access physical stores.
Businesses conducting their sales online are also getting huge profits as compared to those who rely on offline marketing. This is the main reason why many businesses are coming into the limelight by marketing their goods and services using online media. All this is done by having a website designed by a skilled freelancer in the market.
Freelance designers like big web designer companies are competent and skilled individuals with specialized expertise in web design. They mostly work independently making it easier for one to access them.
Always updated
Freelance designers mostly handle complex demands and conditions from their clients. Doing this makes them mindful of such situations as they make efforts of designing better solution once faced with such problems. Therefore, while they design your website, they will be able to develop advanced and fresh ideas to market your business.
Flexibility
They are always flexible and ready for any modification in their work. They are much more willing to work from any point at any time when needed. The client should also consider the appropriate fees or charges of the freelance web designer if the change or modification is considerable.
Cost effective
The process of creating a website tends to be costly considering the low economy of scale. In fact, hiring a design company to get the job done will exhaust the better part of your wallet. However, the total cost of designing a website can be lower if you get the services of a freelance designer. They offer most services for less money. A freelance designer gives the best client support and delivers the cheapest but valuable web design services.
Direct communication
A freelance web designer allows room for direct communication and appropriate support after the work. You may be having a lot of questions running through your mind when you are developing your website. These doubts can be cleared using the direct communication process with your designer.
More interest
Getting the services of a freelance designer ensures close attention and notice is given on your website design. In this way, you will be guaranteed of realizing the success of your project within the shortest time possible.
In conclusion, Chicago freelance web design services are suitable for both big and small business. Even though they offer the cheapest rates, they offer outstanding and competent services.
Contact John Schuster today if you are in need of a professional Chicago freelance web designer.
Many people these days rely on the Internet to buy or sell products due to its increased efficiency. As an entrepreneur who aims to remain relevant in today’s competitive world, one has to rely on the services offered by e-commerce software to create a well-organized website for business promotion. E-commercewebsite design supports a business customer base in the exchange of goods and services.
Different from the ancient times whereby an entrepreneur had to strive so hard to access clients, today’s internet realm is gain too many. Anybody can launch an e-commerce website when establishing a business to get access to potential customers worldwide. However, optimized and properly designed e-commerce is needed for one to realize success.
Responsive Web Design
The future of the e-commerce industry relies heavily on a mobile-friendly Website. If one cannot meet these condition for potential customers, then chances of them losing some opportunities to other competitors become high. One has to shift from the desktop to mobile communication since the mobile serves as a hub for you to get more results.
Blog
Blogging is another important element of attracting most readers to your site. It plays a significant role in increasing website visibility, targeting a new audience, generating search engine traffics and leads. You should, therefore, keep in mind on the power of blogging since it can offer you with plenty of paybacks.
Integration of Social Media
Giving social media a prime priority will enable you to get updated on the most recent trends in e-commerce website designing. This is because of its supportive nature in revealing negativity that changes online visitors into potential clients. It modifies the rapport that exists between a client and the company, so it is necessary.
Fast Loading Time
The time a website takes to load its content matters a lot. You have to pay close attention to that since it may be the reason why customers never visit your website due to frustrations. Fast Loading website will impress any client and make them comfortable to visit the site at any time.
Contact John Schuster for a free estimate on E-commerce web design for your business or organization today.
As an expert interactive designer in Chicago, I conceptualize, create, develop and maintaining visually appealing, user-friendly websites and interactive experiences for your business or organization.
My services have the ability to deliver an engaging user experience across multiple platforms on web or mobile devices. Interactive design projects utilize programs such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Dreamweaver to create successful user experiences. My expertise with HTML and CSS and responsive design are extensive. With a sharp attention to details and accuracy down to the single pixel, I guarantee that your project will be a powerful asset that you can showcase.
Nobody who might have been your client has lost sleep over your name, logo, website, or business cards. They really don’t care. They might have cared if you had offered to solve their problems, but you were more interested in being impressive than you were in asking the right questions.
The thought-provoking questions you ask are your positioning. The A-ha moments you create are your portfolio.
People will forget the color of your logo, but they will remember that you helped them unravel an annoying problem.
Or, if you’re a photographer, they’ll forget your domain name, and they will remember how your images made their products look desirable.
Ask Slashdot: Is There a Good Alternative to Facebook?
Long-time Slashdot reader Lauren Weinstein argues that fixing Facebook may be impossible because “Facebook’s entire ecosystem is predicated on encouraging the manipulation of its users by third parties who posses the skills and financial resources to leverage Facebook’s model. These are not aberrations at Facebook — they are exactly how Facebook was designed to operate.” Meanwhile one fund manager is already predicting that sooner or later every social media platform “is going to become MySpace,” adding that “Nobody young uses Facebook,” and that the backlash over Cambridge Analytica “quickens the demise.”
But Slashdot reader silvergeek asks, “is there a safe, secure, and ethical alternative?” to which tepples suggests “the so-called IndieWeb stack using the h-entry microformat.” He also suggests Diaspora, with an anonymous Diaspora user adding that “My family uses a server I put up to trade photos and posts… Ultimately more people need to start hosting family servers to help us get off the cloud craze… NethServer is a pretty decent CentOS based option.”
Meanwhile Slashdot user Locke2005 shared a Washington Post profile of Mastodon, “a Twitter-like social network that has had a massive spike in sign-ups this week.”Mastodon’s code is open-source, meaning anybody can inspect its design. It’s distributed, meaning that it doesn’t run in some data center controlled by corporate executives but instead is run by its own users who set up independent servers. And its development costs are paid for by online donations, rather than through the marketing of users’ personal information… Rooted in the idea that it doesn’t benefit consumers to depend on centralized commercial platforms sucking up users’ personal information, these entrepreneurs believe they can restore a bit of the magic from the Internet’s earlier days — back when everything was open and interoperable, not siloed and commercialized.
The article also interviews the founders of Blockstack, a blockchain-based marketplace for apps where all user data remains local and encrypted. “There’s no company in the middle that’s hosting all the data,” they tell the Post. “We’re going back to the world where it’s like the old-school Microsoft Word — where your interactions are yours, they’re local and nobody’s tracking them.” On Medium, Mastodon founder Eugene Rochko also acknowledges Scuttlebutt and Hubzilla, ending his post with a message to all social media users: “To make an impact, we must act.”
Wired has also compiled their own list of alternatives to every Facebook service. But what are Slashdot’s readers doing for their social media fix? Leave your own thoughts and suggestions in the comments.
Is there a good alternative to Facebook?
Signal for messaging:
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/signal-private-messenger/
DELETING FACEBOOK? HERE ARE THE BEST ALTERNATIVES FOR WHAT YOU’LL MISS
Chicago does not like Facebook:
Facebook accused of massive fraud in new lawsuit filed by Cook County
Written for The Daily Bell by Bill Ottman, Co-Founder of minds.com & Schuyler Brown, Futurist.
It’s hard to believe the Food Revolution has only been in effect for about ten years. In that time, we’ve seen drastic changes in the way citizens of the world choose to buy food for their families. What was once considered a pricey preoccupation of the body- and health-conscious has risen to become a major industry, topping $42 billion in 2014.
Why? Because people woke up. We woke up to the fact that most of the products on our supermarket shelves are atrociously mislabeled and composed of artificial and genetically modified ingredients. This is not food; at best, it’s maybe food-like. We woke up to the reality that many of America’s most popular and beloved food brands — Coca-Cola, Pepsi, Kraft, Post, Pepperidge Farms, Nestle — are making products that aren’t good for us. We also woke up to the realization that the government isn’t looking out for us when it comes to our food, so policing it is our personal responsibility. Thus, we can no longer afford to be negligent or apathetic in a food environment that has become corrupt and toxic.
We’re now understanding the truth behind that age-old saying: You are what you eat. We literally become what we consume, on both genetic and epigenetic levels, and we don’t want diabetes for ourselves or our children, or to be exposed to unnecessary hormones and antibiotics. We want food made with integrity, not just for our well-being, but for the health of the earth. Conscious food production practices are crucial for long-term sustainability of soil, biodiversity, and many elements of the biosphere.
Imagine you come to a salon to get a haircut. You see two available professionals — someone with a “trainee” badge and and a regular employee. Now unless you want to get a heavily discounted, but possibly awkward, haircut, you’d likely choose a “pro” right?
When it comes to freelancing, most clients would prefer to deal with pros, not a beginner. In fact, if you want to draw in a better class of clients, earn higher rates, and spend less time negotiating, you should be positioning yourself as an expert.
However, establishing expertise doesn’t happen on its own. You have to take steps to develop an excellent reputation and hone professional skills that differentiate you from your competition. It’s time to ditch your “trainee” budget and work towards the expert status using this five-step framework.
“The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire.” — Jim Rohn
Most people wish their circumstances would magically change for them. They don’t have the desire to become better themselves so they can proactively improve their own circumstances.
Unlike most people, who simply wait and wish for luck, you can seek to become the kind of person equipped with the skills and abilities to do brilliant things.
You can become the kind of person who does highly influential work. Your work can solve pressing problems, improve people’s lives, and get noticed by important people who share your work not for your sake, but for theirs! Sharing your work makes them look good because of how great it is.
The quality of who you are as a person, and the work you do, is completely within your control. But you can’t wish for it to happen. You must become the kind of person who naturally attracts the success you seek.
If you work in design, you’ve probably noticed by now the wave of “UX writer” jobs being posted online over the past couple of years. From Google to YouTube, Dropbox, Amazon and PayPal, every big tech company now has a team of UX writers. But what is UX writing? In this article, you’ll find out.
by Raelene Morey March 13, 2018